The Paranormal Database

Switching Lights

Location: Clare - Stone Hall (Council building)
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 21 November 1961
Further Comments: People arriving at the site found lights turned on, even though the caretaker had switched them off. Previously, lights had switched themselves on and chairs moved apparently unaided.

Wealthy Farmer

Location: Clopton - Farm next to Clopton Hall
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Mid twentieth century
Further Comments: The ghost of a farmer whose wealth was never discovered is said to still be around the area, waiting for a person willing to follow him to the hidden money.

Corton beach, Suffolk.

Fog Bank with Flag

Location: Corton - Beach
Type: UFO
Date / Time: 29 March 1890
Further Comments: In what could be an early UFO sighting, a man walking along the beach watched a localised 'fog bank' sitting on the sand, with a huge flagpole sticking out. After ten minutes, the object rose and faded from view.

Dog Walker

Location: Corton - Tramps Alley
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1987, summer
Further Comments: Four friends camping on the beach decided to walk towards Corton in the early hours of the morning. Sitting down for a rest, two of the group spotted a man with a dog had suddenly appeared a short distance away. Man and dog stood completely motionless, looking out to sea. The two witnesses turned to their friends and tried to point out the man and dog, but they had vanished.

Covehithe Churchyard, Suffolk.

Faceless Lady

Location: Covehithe - Churchyard
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: A faceless woman has been seen in the churchyard, though nothing more is known of the witness or the story behind the ghost.

The North Sea off the Covehithe coast.

Long Neck with Series of Humps

Location: Covehithe - Off coast
Type: Cryptozoology
Date / Time: July 1978
Further Comments: The witness described the creature as having a head like a seal, with a long neck and several humps. He also said that the event occurred very quickly...

Clumping in the presence of Young Girls

Location: Creeting St Mary - Rectory
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 1963
Further Comments: This ghostly presence became active when young girls were in the building, though there are no modern reports of the entity.

Malekin

Location: Dagworth - The house of Sir Osberni de Bradewelle
Type: Fairy
Date / Time: 1189-1199
Further Comments: Malekin would converse with the family of Sir Osberni de Bradewelle, sharing people's secrets and humouring householders in the voice of a one year old child. The entity would speak in both English and Latin, and while Malekin could be heard and felt, he only appeared once; manifesting as a child dressed in a white tunic to a woman who agreed not to try and touch him. Malekin claimed that he had been born in Lavenham, removed from a field after being left there by his mother, and he had a hat which made him invisible.

Treasure Protector

Location: Dallinghoo - High gate post - exact location not known
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Little is known about this ghost, other than he is said to protect a hoard of treasure, and twelve clergymen failed to exorcise him. Maybe the clergymen were more successful than they believed - the legend dates to at least 1893, but in April 2008 a hoard of golden coins were discovered in farmland in the village.

Flitting Woman

Location: Dallinghoo - Lanes in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa nineteenth century
Further Comments: A widow by the name of Shawe was said to have killed herself by slitting her throat, after which she took to the lanes in the area, flitting around without visible feet.

Monk

Location: Darsham - Low Road / The Street
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century
Further Comments: Two separate witnesses were said to have seen a monk-like figure on different occasions in a garden close to the church. It is speculated that the phantom is somehow connected to Leiston Abbey.

Lion?

Location: Darsham - Near Little Chef restaurant (currently Two Magpies Bakery)
Type: ABC
Date / Time: 2003
Further Comments: Reported by Big Cats of Suffolk, two witnesses spotted a sandy coloured cat, similar to a lion or Puma, which could be seen sunning itself in the early morning light.

Woman

Location: Darsham - Vicarage
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Circa 1920s, 1930s
Further Comments: Both the front door and that of the drawing room would open unaided, and the figure of a woman was seen in a small front bedroom.

Nailed Spirit

Location: Debenham - Barley House (unknown if building still exists)
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown - pre 1892
Further Comments: A large horseshoe which was once nailed to the ceiling of this building was said to contain a spirit, exorcised by a large team of clergymen.

Water Man

Location: Debenham - Pond in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown - pre 1892
Further Comments: The ghost of a male haunted the area surrounding the pond. A clergyman placed a rushlight (a type of candle made from the rush plant) into the water and declared the phantom could not return until the light had burnt out.

Tall Man in Hat

Location: Debenham - Road through village
Type: Unknown Ghost Type
Date / Time: 04 January 1973
Further Comments: After colliding with a cloak-clad gentleman, a van driver then observed the spectral figure running along a nearby grass verge.

Monk and Friends

Location: Denham St Mary - Denham Church
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century?
Further Comments: Several shades haunt this area, including a phantom monk who walks around an old path and a ghostly woman seen stepping from the church gate.

Albert

Location: Dennington - Queen's Head public house
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: 2000s
Further Comments: Nicknamed Albert by the owners, this phantom can be heard pacing up and down above the bar area.

Piano Playing

Location: Denston - Plumber's Arms public house
Type: Poltergeist
Date / Time: 1982-2003
Further Comments: Poltergeist activities were experienced over a 21 year period, which including pictures being removed or thrown from walls, a self-playing piano, and footsteps heard along the landing. An older man also manifested in one of the bedrooms.

The remaining buttress of All Saint's Church, Dunwich.

End of War

Location: Dunwich - All Saint's Church (only a buttress remains)
Type: Other
Date / Time: Pre-1918
Further Comments: A villager was told an old book contained a story that a ruined tower on the cliffs would fall at the end of the 'greatest war in history'. The tower of All Saint's Church fell four years after the First World War ended (the buttress was saved and is now in St James' Church, pictured).

White Figure

Location: Dunwich - Area around the 'red stile', between Dunwich and Heveningham, aka Devil's Field or Lane.
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Pre-1924
Further Comments: This pale phantom was described as wearing a white veil or having black patches around the head. One brave man touched the entity and went numb down his right side. A large black hound-like creature was also reported in the area, and a clanking chain heard.

Cliff paths near Dunwich friary in Suffolk.

Searcher

Location: Dunwich - Cliff paths near the friary
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: The ghost of a man is said to walk along these paths, looking for his wife who many believe eloped with another.

Dunwich beach.

Elizabethan Sailor

Location: Dunwich - Coastline
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: This ghostly figure slowly walks down to the sea before hopping into his boat and taking sail.

A road through Dunwich, Suffolk.

Herds of Cows

Location: Dunwich - General area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Herds of invisible grazing animals were once heard by locals moving along the roads in this area. The creatures are also said to be heard on the beach, where green pastures once lay.

Dunwich Heath, Suffolk.

Squire on Horseback

Location: Dunwich - Heathland in the area
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Nights of the full moon (reoccurring)
Further Comments: Riding his fastest racehorse, this phantom landowner charges around the heathland worrying the locals.